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Kevin Rose Load Tests Gmail
SishGupta writes "Load Testing Gmail - fillmybox@gmail.com
A few weeks ago, Kevin Rose of the The Screen Savers decided to load test Google's new email service, Gmail. He asked everyone to email him their favourite 5MB attachments to 'fillmybox@gmail.com.'
The test Gmail account is now 102% maxed out.
You can read about the test and the results at Kevin Rose.com (his weblog)."
... since Google advertises the service as 1GB of email storage 1023MB is technically under the limit and not 102% of the limit.
Kevin Rose is a wannabe hacker (or cracker, whatever term you want to use) who tries to portray himself as a technology guru. This is simply another stunt to make him look cool in the eyes of script kiddies. Sad really...
That post would have sucked a whole lot less ass if I had entered my numbers right. 1 GiB is not 10^30 bytes, it's 2^30 bytes. My sincerest apologies for correcting you in a way that requires correction itself.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
>24 megabytes is a substantial difference for most email users.
It is if you have 10MB or 100MB,
but not when you have 1000 megabytes.
100K of memory was alot when all you had was 640K, but 100k is nothing to most users nowadays.
I doubt that the space is all that the users care about. I was quite content with 5 megs of space until the spam-bots got a hold of my Yahoo account.
No, the real deal is archiving all of your old email and the ability to search through it all, as well as targeted advertising... I detest picture-advertising... most kinds, that is. pr0n's another story.
One of the other factors that makes the service so appealing to me is I trust Google, unlike Microsoft or Yahoo, to not sell my email address. When the company who gave you the email address is handing it out to the spammers (or spamming the box themselves), something is wrong.
- Yolegoman
What is the point in his test ? Did he think that Google hadn't done any testing at all ? Did he think that if a mailbox hit 100% something dreadful would happen ? Of course it's going to work just fine, 1Mb, 10Mb, 100Mb, 1000Mb or even 10,000Mb is just a tiny dribble in the ocean that is Googles' infrastructure. He's just looking for some kind of kudos ... "Hey dude I filled up my Gmail account!" "Wow! That's so ... so ... actually that's pretty lame .."
1. He made out it was a load test.
2. gmail is in beta; one of the points of using gmail at the moment is to report any problems you have.
Never, ever lose a file again. Ever.
This was actully a very good test for Gmail, it showed a possible error in the code that locked out an account that had either too much activity, or went over its limit. That's what beta testing is all about, and Google would do well to acknowledge the problem and correct it.
Learn something new.
Good test? Old news. A friend of mine, Milo, did this two weeks ago. I even submitted a Slashdot article. But it got rejected. Why? Some guy in the Netherlands isn't as important as the all mighty Kevin Rose of the Screen Savers I guess. :-\
You're right, I wouldn't steal a car. But if it were possible, I sure as hell would download one!
The standard prefixes kibi, mebi, gibi, tebi, etc. mean the exact same thing when applied to ANY measure. That's the entire point of a standard, and the standard says 2^10, 2^20, 2^30, and 2^40, respectively.
So exactly what measures, other than units of computer storage, are you intending to apply these prefixes to?
If the answer is "none", then it's not a standard, it's a kludge.
Water goes through an unusual expansion between 0 deg and 4 deg celcius, (which is why you have water under a layer of ice)Water is most dense at 4 degrees, and that it why . Anyway, you're totally off on the second and the gram. The SI unit is KILOGram, not gram. , and that is defined by a lump of metal of that weightLink. Also the definition of a metre has been redefined as the distance it takes light to travel in certain amount of time. Finally, the second is defined as the time it takes a certain amount of radioactive material to decay. All links here. Nothing arbitrary about it. And that still doesn't explain how we're better off not using simple measurements like the Kilometre, The Centigrade scale and others.
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Actually I think this is a awesome idea. Never before has it been this easy to "harvest" information with this possibility for results. ....
;)... and see what people keep and throw away or what becomes popular with others via sharing.
:)
With 1 GB of room for error (viagra, et al) and if threaded emails could somehow be grouped by 'genre' where "Hardware" could be linked even multiple times to other groups that may contain subjects such as "Wish list", "Computers" or "Technology"
With a good eye for mailing lists and other correspondence you could even build your own 'supper site' that you could share with others in part or in whole in form of links (ranges of..)
Even would give google a good test on how people would really search for information... For example for 'hardware' you may add apple, ibm, linux
OR even dare to think Google with all their power, wealth and genious would host sites that would allow others check out your 'public collection' you could also have files hosted to others right from google. Thus making it the number one hot spot for attention via any browser. Think of it as an ultimate blog...
Even possibly you could have people reply back to your email address in 'public mode' that would allow the site to dynamicaly grow and be interacted without the direct intervention of the owner of the address / site. Who could of course shut it down at any time keeping all notes that were submitted while it was up for public interraction under personal view (as a cool momento
Now that would be cool!!!
A loop, by its nature, continues. If that didn't make sense, start reading this sentence again.
Giving them a unit they can be honest with, you mean? Rather than using "kilobyte" to mean "1000 bytes" like HD manufacturers do now, just to confuse and con the public?
This is probably because spammers put random words from dictionary into the messages to make spam detection harder. Thus, with enough spam, you get every word in the dictionary.
I'm so old-school my Yahoo account had (still has, actually) free POP3 and SMTP access.
And I'm not that old-school.